Gravity coal-bin.



S. DTIS.

GRAVITY GOAL BIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11, 1907.

1,052,945. Patented Feb. 11,1913.

3 SHEETS-SHEET l.

F/GUEE] WITNESSES: INVENTOR.

@. v By a4? Q? h. @M w i wawa ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANDGIZAPH CUUWASHINGTON. D. cv

S. OTIS.

GRAVITY GOAL BIN. APPLICATION FILED JULY 11,1907.

1,052, 945. Patented Feb. 11, 1913.

, 3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

fhm ad q m Q A TTORNEY$ COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0. WASHINGTON. D. c.

S. OTIS.

GRAVITY GOAL BIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11,1907.

1,052,945. Patented Feb. 11, 1913.

3 SHEBTSSHEET 3.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR.

6? 7. @M V4014? gz/w A TTORN E Y5 cum-nun vmxuumvn :0 WASHINGTON. u. c.

SPENCER OTIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 'IO GRAVITY COAL BIN COMPANY, A.

I CORPORATION OF MAINE.

GRAVITY COAL-BIN.

Application filed July 11, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER Orrs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gravity Coal-Bins, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide new and improved means for receiving and distributing coal from dump cars into bins and for distributing it therefrom into wagons or other vehicles.

In the draw1ngs-F1gure 1 1s a transverse section of a structure embodying my invention, the section being taken on line 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a plan View.

The embodiment of my invention illustrated in the drawings comprises a plurality of sets of bins, together with a railway track extending longitudinally along the top thereof. The track 1 is directly above a center bin 2. At either side of the center bin 2 are side bins 3, the track 1 being supported upon transverse beams 4 supported upon the upright posts 4: to which the walls 5 of the center bin 2 are attached. At the top of the walls 5, I hinge at 6 deflectors 7, which may be swung outwardly to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, in which position they are supported by chains 8, or may be swung inwardly to the position shown in dotted lines, in which position they are supported by the elevated track structure 1, 46. The longitudinal stringers 4 of the elevated structure directly support the track.

Upon the track 1, I have shown a dump car 9 of a common type the floor of which is provided with dump doors 10, shown in dotted lines in open position in Fig. 1. It will be apparent that when the deflectors 7 occupy the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, the contents of the car upon being dumped therefrom will be conducted into the center bin 2. Upon moving the deflector plates to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the contents of the car will be deflected into the side bins 3.

As more clearly indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, the bins are arranged in sets, two of which, 11 and 12, are shown in those views. Each set consists of two bins 20 upon each side of the track and two bins 21 in the center directly beneath the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11,1913.

Serial No. 383,284.

same. The partition 22 which extends clear across each set of bins serves to separate the bins of each pair, 20, 21 and 20. The pairs of bins are separated from each other by the partitions 5 shown in Fig. 1. Between the sets of bins I provide transverse passages '13, and the walls of the bins separating the bins from the passages are provided with vertical series of doors 14. Each door 1A is hinged to a board 15 sloping outwardly and downwardly from the lower side of the corresponding door 0 oening and the doors when closed are ac apted to rest against the vertical support 16. Projecting from the wall are brackets 17 adapted to support the doors when open in an outwardly and downwardly inclined position in alinement with the board 15. This arrangement is for the purpose of deflecting the coal outwardly from the side of the bin when discharged through the door opening. The doors are arranged in vertical series in order that the coal or other contents of the bin may be discharged through a door near the upper level thereof, it being wellknown that such materials will not discharge through an opening located a considerable distance below the upper level thereof. The floors of the bins incline downwardly to-- ward the transverse passages, the lower door being situated just above the floor. Immediately below the lower door opening and substantially on a level with the lower edge of the floor, I provide aprons 18 to prevent materials discharged from the doors from being deposited on the ground, and to insure the delivery of the, same into a wagon or other vehicle being loaded. The floors of the bins may be curved, as shown at the left hand of Fig. 2 or may be plane surfaces, as shown at the right hand of that figure.

lVhat I claim is:

1. In a device of the class described, an

an elevated structure adapted to support a track, a plurality of sets of compartments, each set comprising central compartments directly beneath said structure and side compartments beneath and at the sides'of said structure, transverse passages between said sets of compartments, vertical series of doors in the walls of said compartments and opening into said transverse passages, and deflectors whereby material dumped at either side of said structure may be conducted to the central compartment or to one of the side compartments.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, an elevated structure adapted to support a track, a plurality of sets of compartments, each set comprising central compartments directly beneath said. structure and side compartments beneath and at the sides of said structure, transverse passages between said sets of compartments, vertical series of doors in the walls of said compartments and opening into said transverse passages floors in said compartments sloping toward said transverse passages, and deflectors 25 whereby material dumped at either side of said structure may be conducted to the central compartment or to the side compartments.

SPENCER OTIS.

WVitnesses:

GEO. LFWILKINSON, ANNA L. SAVOIE.

Copies of this patentmay be obtained'for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

